notes 2.7

Nurtureoneslife:

When we have vikalpas (false concepts) and are trying to give them up, 

i.e. when we are still not perfected, 

but have to make conscious effort to keep the mind one-pointed or free from thought, 

it is Nirvikalpa Samadhi. 

When through practice we are always in that state, not going into samadhi and coming out again, that is the sahaja (natural) state. 

In sahaja one always sees oneself. 

He sees the jagat (world) as swarupa

(Reality) or Brahmakara (form of Brahman). 

Eventually, what was once the means becomes itself the goal, whatever method 

one follows. 

Dhyana (meditation), jnana, bhakti and samadhi are all names for ourselves, for our Real State.

Knowing one’s Self is only being one’s Self, as there is no second existence. This is Self-realization.

- GEMS from Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. Chapter: Self Realisation

Actually, you are the answer. 

You without you. 

The pure consciousness 

beyond the concept of pure consciousness.

☀️ Mooji

Keep the remembrance of your real nature alive, even while working, and avoid haste which causes you to forget. Be deliberate. Practice meditation to still the mind and cause it to become aware of its true relationship to the Self which supports it. 

Do not imagine that it is you who are doing the work. Think that is the underlying current which is doing it. Identify yourself with the current.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

"After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is.

Such a great soul is very rare."

Bhagavad Gita 7.19

MARCH 21st, 1953

I am reminded of the fateful day of twenty-first March, 1953. For many lives I had been working ‒ working upon myself, struggling, doing whatsoever can be done ‒ and nothing was happening.

Now I understand why nothing was happening. The very effort was the barrier, the very ladder was preventing, the very urge to seek was the obstacle. Not that one can reach without seeking. Seeking is needed, but then comes a point when seeking has to be dropped. The boat is needed to cross the river but then comes a moment when you have to get out of the boat and forget all about it and leave it behind. Effort is needed, without effort nothing is possible. And also only with effort, nothing is possible.

Just before twenty-first March, 1953, seven days before, I stopped working on myself. A moment comes when you see the whole futility of effort. You have done all that you can do and nothing is happening. You have done all that is humanly possible. Then what else can you do? In sheer helplessness one drops all search.

And the day the search stopped, the day I was not seeking for something, the day I was not expecting something to happen, it started happening. A new energy arose ‒ out of nowhere. It was not coming from any source. It was coming from nowhere and everywhere. It was in the trees and in the rocks and the sky and the sun and the air ‒ it was everywhere. And I was seeking so hard, and I was thinking it is very far away. And it was so near and so close.

Just because I was seeking I had become incapable of seeing the near. Seeking is always for the far, seeking is always for the distant ‒ and it was not distant. I had become far-sighted, I had lost the near-sightedness. The eyes had become focussed on the far away, the horizon, and they had lost the quality to see that which is just close, surrounding you.

The day effort ceased, I also ceased. Because you cannot exist without effort, and you cannot exist without desire, and you cannot exist without striving.

The phenomenon of the ego, of the self, is not a thing, it is a process. It is not a substance sitting there inside you; you have to create it each moment. It is like pedalling a bicycle. If you pedal it goes on and on, if you don’t pedal it stops. It may go a little because of the past momentum, but the moment you stop pedalling, in fact the bicycle starts stopping. It has no more energy, no more power to go anywhere. It is going to fall and collapse.

The ego exists because we go on pedalling desire, because we go on striving to get something, because we go on jumping ahead of ourselves. That is the very phenomenon of the ego ‒ the jump ahead of yourself, the jump in the future, the jump in the tomorrow. The jump in the non-existential creates the ego. Because it comes out of the non-existential it is like a mirage. It consists only of desire and nothing else. It consists only of thirst and nothing else. It consists only of future and nothing.

OSHO •THE DISCIPLINE OF TRANSCENDENCE

Turning one's purified awareness within on the witness as pure consciousness, one should gradually bring it to stillness and then become aware of the perfection of one's true nature.

~ Shankara, Vivekachudamani

चाह मिटी, चिंता मिटी, मनवा बेपरवाह

जिसको कुछ नही चाहिए, वो शाहेंशाह 💮

-“if your wishes ends, than your anxiety and troubles will also end, and your mind will be fearless. One who doesn't need anything, he is a real king”

-kabir saheb